10BTT cheaper than global estimates

Adviser to PM on Climate Change says 10BTT was Rs125b worth project with Rs34 per plant cost

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s mega 10 Billion Tree Tsunami (10BTT) project is cheaper than the global estimates for the cost of massive plantation to confiscate huge amounts of carbon in the world.

This was stated by Adviser to prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam, who said that the 10BTT was an overall Rs125 billion worth project with Rs34 per plant cost.

He said, additionally, 10BTT was the upscale version of Billion Tree Tsunami Project successfully implemented in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).

It had managed to generate 500,000 green jobs which helped uplift the economic status of poor masses particularly women as most of the widows in KP got benefitted through it.  

Published in The Express Tribune, July 16^th, 2019.